Geo. A. Hormel & Co.

February 8, 1986|By Deanne Brandon

SHOW OF NON-SUPPORT. A rally for Hormel strikers drew only 120 people Friday -- a quarter of the number that turned out a week earlier -- and some National Guardsmen were recalled from the meatpacking plant. The Guard has kept order since Jan. 20 at Geo. A. Hormel & Co.'s Austin, Minn., where Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union has been on strike since August. Chief labor strategist Ray Rogers and 27 strikers were arrested Thursday on charges of violating a court order limiting pickets at the gates.